The African American Hall of Fame was established at UT in 1994 to commemorate the achievements of UT African Americans. Twelve charter members were inducted from a nomination list of more than one hundred: Wilber Cherry, one of UT’s first African American varsity basketball players in 1971–72; Willie Mae Gillespie, one of the first three African Americans to enroll as an undergraduate, January 1961; Gene Mitchell Gray, the first African American to attend UT as a graduate student, January 1952; Marion Delaney-Harris, one of the first African Americans to graduate from UT with an undergraduate degree in 1965 and 1968; Felicia Felder-Hoehne, the first African American UT librarian, 1969; Wade Houston, the first African American head coach (basketball), 1989; Robert Kirk, the first African American full-time professor on the campus in Knoxville, 1967; Brenda J. L. Peel, the first African American to earn an undergraduate degree, June 1964; Theotis Robinson, one of the first three students to enroll as an undergraduate in January 1961; Marilyn Yarbrough, the first African American dean of a college (Law), 1989; Sammye Wynn, the first African American instructor hired in the College of Education, 1966; and Dhyana Ziegler, the first African American to serve as president of the Faculty Senate, 1995. The permanent location of the Hall of Fame is in the Black Cultural Center. Dr. Dhyana Ziegler is credited with conceiving the idea and moving it toward implementation with the assistance from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.